You can now replace Stray’s cat with gaming’s favorite dragon
Spyro returns
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Spyro has come to the dingy neon streets of Stray in a new mod that turns the feline adventure into a serpent’s sojourn.
While Stray’s silent cat hasleaped into Doom, a significantly scalier creature has come to replace it. The pithily namedSpyro the Dragon modswaps Stray’s furry hero with the classic purple mascot.
The mod lets you play as Spyro and replaces every other cat you encounter in the game with another dragon of a different color or pattern. Using the Spyro character model from 2018’s Spyro Reignited Trilogy, the dragon’s hi-res textures make it fit right in with Stray’sstranger-than-fiction city.
While it may seem unfair that only PC players get the craziest content thanks to a community churning outStray mods,PS5orPS4owners have their own benefits. Right now, they canplay Stray for freewith this neat trick.
Swooping in
Spyro fits the role surprisingly well. Despite being a fire-breathing dragon, he’s a similar size to Stray’s tabby, letting him slot right into the cyberpunk world without too much discrepancy. It also helps that he’s a pretty friendly fella, and rivals even the most cuddly cat for cuteness.
With no official Spyro game announced to be in development, fans of the 3D platformer might have to make do with this mod for the time being. Stray’s single-button jumping can’t rival the fluid aerial platforming of the original series, although it’s arguably at its bestwhen you’re doing nothing at all. Even Insomniac, the original dev studio behind Spyro, is on board,tweetingsupport for the mod.
CreatorCelticDragon85 saysthey’re also keen to see Stray’s cat replaced with Pokémon’s Eevee or Mew, so look out for more fury imposters making their way to the game. If only someone could combine these skins with theStray splitscreen multiplayer mod, we’d be all set.
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As for how to insert Spyro in your own game, learnhow to install Stray modswith our handy guide. You’ll be splicing dragons into BlueTwelve’s adventure game in no time.
Callum is TechRadar Gaming’s News Writer. You’ll find him whipping up stories about all the latest happenings in the gaming world, as well as penning the odd feature and review. Before coming to TechRadar, he wrote freelance for various sites, including Clash, The Telegraph, and Gamesindustry.biz, and worked as a Staff Writer at Wargamer. Strategy games and RPGs are his bread and butter, but he’ll eat anything that spins a captivating narrative. He also loves tabletop games, and will happily chew your ear off about TTRPGs and board games.
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